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NOUN
- United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
How To Use Peary In A Sentence
- But where the blue clay aboundeth (which hardly drinketh up the winter's water in long season) there the grass is speary, rough, and very apt for bushes: by which occasion it becometh nothing so profitable unto the owner as the other. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
- Its showery, arrowy, speary sleet pierceth one thro and thro, OHusseys Ode to the Maguire
- Why, when I come to you, I don't forever feel it rising up with a thousand speary heads that shut you out; it drowns in your presence; the surface is cool and clear, and I can look down, down, into the very heart of my sin, like that strange lake we looked into one day, -- do you remember it? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
- Conventionally male and female caribou are assumed to congregate on rutting areas, which I believe is usually true for Peary caribou.
- The antlers of the Peary caribou grow swiftly each year, and may double the height of an adult male before growth ends in the fall.
- A cape of northwest Greenland in northern Baffin Bay. It was used as an exploration base by Robert E. Peary, who discovered its famous iron meteorites.
- The cupolas of the many mosques and the tall and speary minarets gave their Eastern message -- that message which, even to In the Wilderness
- Peary Robert explored the North Pole in 1909.
- Gee!" she giggled, "after going to bed every night over there muffled in woolen pajamas and blankets till I looked like Peary, a nightie like this feels positively indecent. Lance Mannion:
- A cape of northwest Greenland in northern Baffin Bay. It was used as an exploration base by Robert E. Peary, who discovered its famous iron meteorites.